Legal Opinion
Boivin v. Black
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 7, 2000No. 99-2085PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e (Supp. II 1996), altered the legal landscape in regard to several types of civil actions brought by prison inmates. Certain of these changes curtailed the amount of attorneys’ fees that a prevailing prisoner-plaintiff could expect to obtain from his vanquished opponent. One such provision involves suits for money damages; when a prisoner secures a monetary judgment in a civil action covered by the PLRA, the statute caps the defendants’ liability for attorneys’ fees at 150% of the judgment. See id. §…
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